I would really like to see a file browser when loading source with gdb

[David Carter]

Hello all,

This is less a bug and more a feature request.

The problem I'm having is that when debugging a large program on Linux with 
gdb, I'm usually but not consistently unable to view the symbols, and 
therefore unable to set breakpoints. Sometimes if I load the shared 
libraries, it will start to show them and sometimes not. Sometimes they 
appear when I exit and reenter the load source dialog, they reappear. 
Fundamentally DDD is useless as it is.

On solaris, using dbx, there's an option to browse to the source file I 
wish to debug. I'd really like that option to be available with gdb, as my 
Linux machine is so much faster than my older sun blade.

BTW, this occurs with all combinations and versions of gdb and ddd I've 
tried, including gdb 6.3,6.4, ddd 3.3.9-11.

TIA,
Dave